Bug 22153

From a fresh installed 3.1-RELEASE box (w/uncommented NOPROFILE=true and CFLAGS="-O -pipe" in /etc/make.conf), I downloaded and installed the 3.5.1-RELEASE source tree. Then I proceeded to make install & build-world as follows:

  cd /usr/obj && chflags -R noschg *  && rm -rf *   
  cd /usr/src &&  make buildworld && shutdown now
Then From single user mode:
  fsck -p && mount -u / && mount -a -t ufs && swapon -a
  #Install the source:
  cd /usr/src && / 
  make installworld && /
  cp -Rp /etc /etc.pre-mergemaster
  /usr/sbin/mergemaster -v 
When finished, 
  # Update /dev:
  # if updating using mergemaster, MAKEDEV has been taken care of:
  cd /dev  
  ./MAKEDEV all
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3a
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3b
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3c
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3d
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3e
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3f
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3g
  ./MAKEDEV wd0s3h
  ./MAKEDEV acd0a
  ./MAKEDEV acd0c
  ./MAKEDEV acd1a
  ./MAKEDEV acd1c
  #Update /stand:
  cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall
  make all install
Then I compiled and install a new kernel (GENERIC):
  cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
  PIKERNEL="3.3R-GENERIC"
  MYKERNEL="GENERIC"
  cp -p /kernel /kernel.${PIKERNEL}.`date + %Y%m%d_%H%M`
  cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf && \
  /usr/sbin/config ${MYKERNEL} && \
  cd ../../compile/${MYKERNEL} && \
  make clean && \ 
  make depend && \
  make && \
  make install && \

And rebooted the machine.
The machine restarted running the 3.5.1R GENERIC kernel (see uname -a output), although some files when "find / -type f -ls" showed a 3.3R date). 
I tried "make installworld" and redowloaded the source several times 
but got always the same error at the make installworld stage. A complete "script" log of the make buildworld installworld is available upon request and is 285193 bytes in zipped form.
What follows is an exerpt of the most relevant messages:
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Script started on Tue Oct 17 07:51:28 2000
# cd /usr/src ; date ; make buildworld ; date ; cd /usr/src ; make installworld ; uname -a 
Tue Oct 17 07:53:23 GMT 2000

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Fix: 

I do not know, but this might be aclue: 
I could detect something weird in the original src files (I checked also the files as of October 2000). 
I accidentally discovered this if one "cat" the ssys.?? > ssys.tgz
gets a warning message from gzip (trailing garbage). 
Also, the file file ssys.bi has not the std size (240000 bytes?) although there here is a ssys.bj!! I never seen this before.

I also tried to compile a GENERIC + ISDN kernel but got errors at the isdn link stage (sppattach) but this may be related to this PR so I wait.
Also when cat
How-To-Repeat: 1) Start from a fresh 3.1-R box (no additional config except in /etc/make.conf) installed from the official CD.
2) Install  (as root)
The 3.5.1-R source tree (from ftp site) :
./install all ; 
shutdown now
cd /usr/src
make buildworld 
.... as described in the handbook for FreeBSD previous to 4.x
make installworld